The filament south of '71 is trying to be free of the sun. We also have a big filament in the southern hemisphere in Earth-facing position. And we just had another C1 flare. 1675 is still working up a head of steam and I count 5 new un-numbered regions on the disk (tho' 3 are only little dots).

The filament south of '71 is trying to be free of the sun. We also have a big filament in the southern hemisphere in Earth-facing position. And we just had another C1 flare. 1675 is still working up a head of steam and I count 5 new un-numbered regions on the disk (tho' 3 are only little dots).

AS I noted yesterday, this region has very complex magnetic fields which have strengthened considerably in the past 24-hrs. You can see the quick growth of the umbrae by contrasting yesterdays pic w/ today's.

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” – Carl Sagan

The filament south of '71 is trying to be free of the sun. We also have a big filament in the southern hemisphere in Earth-facing position. And we just had another C1 flare. 1675 is still working up a head of steam and I count 5 new un-numbered regions on the disk (tho' 3 are only little dots).

"Thou we are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven that which we are, we are.One equal temper of heroic hearts made weak by time and fate but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find and not to yield"

Some of the latest researches are showing that the Sun not only controls our weather but is responsible for earthquakes. Weather, according to Henrik Svensmark, runs parallel to the Sun’s coronal mass ejections (CMEs) but earthquakes in most cases, correspond to sunspot minimums.

Sunspots are those little black spots on the Sun (each spot as big as the Earth) out of which solar flares and CMEs leap towards Earth. During high solar activity, the electric Birkeland currents connecting the Sun and Earth charge up, exciting Earth’s buried Telluric current circuitry. When, as in around every eleven years, the number of Sun spots drop off to nearly zero the Earth reacts. Then the stored electric energy discharges. Tremendous forces are released from the Earth’s circuitry. Result? Earthquakes attended by violent lightning storms and winds!

For instance, during the “Maunder Minimum” there was a period from 1640 AD to 1710 AD of no sunspots. Messina and Catania in this time were totally destroyed by earthquakes. Coincidence? Deadly earthquakes abound in history. Antioch 523BC (death toll 250,000), Sicily 1646 AD and 1693 AD (death toll 150,000), Jamaica 1693 AD, Lisbon 1755 AD and Shaanksi, China 1558 AD (death toll 850,000) to name a few.

Some of the latest researches are showing that the Sun not only controls our weather but is responsible for earthquakes. Weather, according to Henrik Svensmark, runs parallel to the Sun’s coronal mass ejections (CMEs) but earthquakes in most cases, correspond to sunspot minimums.

Sunspots are those little black spots on the Sun (each spot as big as the Earth) out of which solar flares and CMEs leap towards Earth. During high solar activity, the electric Birkeland currents connecting the Sun and Earth charge up, exciting Earth’s buried Telluric current circuitry. When, as in around every eleven years, the number of Sun spots drop off to nearly zero the Earth reacts. Then the stored electric energy discharges. Tremendous forces are released from the Earth’s circuitry. Result? Earthquakes attended by violent lightning storms and winds!

For instance, during the “Maunder Minimum” there was a period from 1640 AD to 1710 AD of no sunspots. Messina and Catania in this time were totally destroyed by earthquakes. Coincidence? Deadly earthquakes abound in history. Antioch 523BC (death toll 250,000), Sicily 1646 AD and 1693 AD (death toll 150,000), Jamaica 1693 AD, Lisbon 1755 AD and Shaanksi, China 1558 AD (death toll 850,000) to name a few.

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” – Carl Sagan

Breaking: NOAA running out of numbers for sunspots. Numbers to be rationed one per day, LOL. Are they keeping the SS number artificially lower to avoid mass panic? I counted 5 un-numbered regions earlier today, only 1677 got a number.

.24 hr Summary...Solar activity was at moderate levels due to an isolated M1 flare at17/1550 UTC and associated Tenflare (340 sfu) from Region 1675 (N12E18).Region 1675 has progressed to a Beta Gamma configuration and hascontinued to grow in both spot count and area throughout the period.Region 1673 (S10E43) has shown slight growth throughout the period whilethe other regions have remained relatively stable. No Earth directedCoronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) were observed throughout the period.

Geospace 24 hr Summary...The geomagnetic field was quiet to unsettled. Isolated unsettled levelswere associated with a prolonged period of negative Bz..Forecast...The geomagnetic field is expected to be generally quiet on day one (18February). Quiet to unsettled levels are expected on day two and three(19-20 February) due to CH HSS effects and a possible glancing blow fromthe 16 February CME. [link to www.swpc.noaa.gov]